Buckle



Patented May 8, 1923.

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CHARLES E. BRADSHAW, 01.` WATER/RUBY, CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

Application led October 4, 1922. Serial No. 592,331.

To @ZZ /wwfm/z't may concern.' f

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BRAD- sHAw, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and 'State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, and whichsaid drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Fig. 1 face view of a buckle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 an end view of the buckle detached.

Fig. 4 a face view of the same, with the lever in the open position.

Fig. 5 a plan view of the frame, with the bottom bar divided and separated to form a loop.

Fig. 6 a sectional view, illustrating a modified form of buckle-frame.

Fig. 7 a face view of the buckle illustrated in Fig. 6, with the leverin its open position.

This invention relates to improvement in buckles, and while particularly adapted for buckles for Suspenders, hose supporters, and the like', are adapted for other uses.v The invention particularly relates to buckles of the-rustless type, which consist of a wire frame comprising an upper and lower bar and a lever pivotally connected with the upper bar. The object of this invention is to so form the frame that the web. may bev engaged therewith in a simple and convenient manner, without sewing, and hence decrease the amount of web used, and the invention consists in a buckle hai/'ing certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a fra-me which comprises a lower bar 10, sides 11 and 12, and ends 13 and 14, which yform the top bar of the frame, and on which the y lever lois mounted, this lever comprising the usual finger-piece 16 and gripping-edge is passed upward between the lower bar 10 I and the gripping-edge 17 of the lever by which the web is deilected over thatpor-` tion of the web engaged by the. lower bar.

Instead of forming the frame from` a."

piece of round wire, it may be formed from a str ip 22 of half-round wire, as indicated in Figs. 6 and 7 ofthe drawings, this wire being doubled upon itself, so as to practically form a singlestrand of round wire. The portions 23 and 24, forming the bottom bar, are separated to receive betweenthem the end 18 of the web, which is gripped in the same way kas in the Vconstruction first" described. y

I-clailn:

1. A buckle, comprising a 'frame' formed from wire having an upper and a lowerl bar, a lever pivotally connected with the upper bar, and the lower bar divided lon gitudinally to iform a loop to .receive one end of a web. y

2. A buckle, comprising` a frame formed from wire having an upper and lower bar, f

and a lever pivotally connected with the` upper bar, and the lower bar formed with a longitudinal slit forming a loop', through which one endof aweb may be clamped. y

In testimony whereof, I vhave signed this specification in the presence of two sub-` scribing witnesses.

CHARLES wWitnesses DoRoTHrv M. MABBOTT, JOHN TLMONZANI.' y

E. BRADSHAIV. 

